Jan Schoonhoven
Jan Schoonhoven (1914-1994), born in Delft, studied at the Koninklijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunst, The Hague from 1930 til 1935. In the early sixties he joined Armando, Jan Henderikse, Herman de Vries, and Henk Peeters in the ‘Nul-groep’ or the Dutch Zero movement. Schoonhoven is mainly known for his minimalist white reliefs.
From 1946 until 1979 Schoonhoven worked at the Royal Dutch mail. In his spare time he worked on his art. In 1967 he received the gold medal at the Biennial of Sao Paulo. From that moment onwards his international career takes flight. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential Dutch artists of the twentieth century.
Work by Jan Schoonhoven has been exhibited widely both in the Netherlands and abroad.
It can be found in prominent collections such as those of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. But also in: The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, The Art Institute Chicago, Tate Gallery London, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Museum Ludwig Köln, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Moderna Museet Stockholm and Helsinki Art Museum, etc. etc.
Schoonhoven has won silver and gold medals at the Biennial of Sao Paulo. In 1984 he was awarded the David Röell Award.
